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- Tags: Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Interview with William Anderson
Interview with Vic Farmer
Normandy landings
Albemarle in flight
Albemarle in flight
Albemarle towing Horsa glider
Jim Ross in the gun turret of an Albemarle
Gliders and tugs at RAF Tarrant Rushton
Halifax towing Hamilcar glider
Rambouillet
Don Briggs, a brief description of wartime service
Tags: 156 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax Mk 1; Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; Master Bomber; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF St Athan; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Wittering; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Reminiscence and memories of Mrs E J Bascombe
Herbert Gray's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 49 Squadron; bombing; bombing of the Le Havre submarine pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Stradishall; Stirling; training; V-3; V-weapon
D Day C-47 and gliders
Below a ground to air photograph showing a stream of C-47s flying from right to left towing gliders. In the bottom right the roof of a building.…
Interview with Donald Briggs
Tags: 156 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Harvard; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Master Bomber; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Halton; RAF Upwood; target indicator; V-1; Wellington; York
Squadron Leader Alistair Taylor DSO and bar DFC and 2 bars
Bottom left air-to-air view of the bottom of a reconnaissance spitfire with Invasion stripes. The camera openings can be seen in the rear…
Interview with Joan Wilson
Harry Parkins' flight engineer log book
Tags: 148 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); C-47; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; V-3; V-weapon
Donald Briggs' logbook
Interview with Dr Marjorie Birch.
Interview with Keith Campbell. Two
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; superstition; the long march
Interview with Thomas Carroll
Tags: 100 Squadron; 626 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); promotion; RAF Grimsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; superstition; training
Interview with Kenneth Cook
Tags: 1 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; crewing up; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Window